Yorktown Schools to hire Winchester's superintendent

YORKTOWN — Yorktown Community Schools is planning to hire Randolph Central Schools Superintendent Greg Hinshaw as its new superintendent.

As now prescribed by state law, Yorktown's school board was scheduled to conduct a public hearing Monday, June 5, on the proposed hiring. The hearing gives the school board an opportunity to hear public "objections to and support for" Hinshaw's proposed contract.

The contract, to be voted on by the school board at its June 20 meeting, calls for a base salary of $125,000 plus an annual performance stipend and base pay increase — if he is evaluated as "effective" or "highly effective" — as well as a minimum annual retention stipend of $6,000.

The term of the contract is July 1 of this year to June 30, 2021.

Hinshaw already has informed the school board at Randolph Central, which includes Winchester Community High School, of his intent to take the Yorktown job.

He is no stranger to public education in Delaware County. At the age of 21, he and former Yorktown Superintendent Jennifer McCormick became first-year teachers together at Wes-Del Community Schools in Gaston, right after Hinshaw had graduated from Ball State University.

Hinshaw, the superintendent at Randolph Central for the past nine years, wasn't looking for a different job. But various people in Yorktown recruited him. "Jennifer reached out to me first, and said, 'Your name came up,'" Hinshaw told The Star Press on Monday.

"I know the district well; I felt it was a good opportunity professionally; it's a good community, an excellent school system of course, and Randolph Central is in a position where it can handle a transition," he said. "It won't be a hardship on them."

Hinshaw spent 12 years in Delaware County, teaching social studies at Wes-Del before becoming principal at Delta High School.

"This year marks half of my life in public education," Hinshaw said. "I started at Wes-Del when I was 21 years old, and I'm now 42."

He earned four degrees from Ball State, a bachelor's (in three years), a master's, a specialist and a doctorate. His post-graduate degrees are in educational leadership.